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Santità e agiografia al femminile

Forme letterarie, tipologie e modelli nel mondo slavo orientale (X-XVII sec.)
  • Maria Chiara Ferro,

The book comprises studies of twenty-four texts of Slavic-ecclesiastical production composed to recount the lives and celebrate the memory of eleven saints of the Russian Orthodox church who lived between the tenth and the seventeenth centuries: Ol'ga of Kiev (†969), Evfrosinija of Polock (†1173), Fevronija of Murom (†1228), Evfrosinija of Suzdal' (†1250), Anna of Kašin (XIII-XIV sec.), Sof'ja of Tver (XIII-XIV sec.), Vassa of Nižnij Novgorod (†1378), Julianija of Vjaz'ma (†1406), Evdokija of Moscow (†1407), Sof'ja of Suzdal' (†1542) and Julianija of Lazar'evo (†1604).
Leaving to the historians the task of establishing the reliability of the hagiographic accounts handed down by the sources, the author intends to highlight the cultural influence of the texts in question. The analysis of the stylistic features, of the motifs and the bibliographical-liturgical citations contained in them, brings to light a characteristic profile of the female hagiography, identifying the image of the 'bride of Christ' as the model of sanctity for women.
This interpretative key represents an initial approach to issues that have been addressed to date only in a superficial and sporadic manner as regards the East Slavic tradition, although they have begun to receive their due attention in the Latin and Byzantine sphere.

  • Keywords:
  • Slavistica,
  • Chiesa Ortodossa,
  • Russia,
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Maria Chiara Ferro

University of Chieti-Pescara G. D'Annunzio, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-9949-6856

Maria Chiara Ferro is a temporary lecturer in Russian language at the "Gabriele D'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, and of Slavic Philology at the "L'Orientale" University of Naples. Her interests and writings gravitate around the history of ancient Russian culture, Slavic-ecclesiastical literature and East Slavic hagiography.
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Book Title

Santità e agiografia al femminile

Book Subtitle

Forme letterarie, tipologie e modelli nel mondo slavo orientale (X-XVII sec.)

Authors

Maria Chiara Ferro

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272

Publication Year

2010

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© 2010 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/978-88-8453-613-6

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978-88-8453-597-9

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978-88-8453-613-6

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Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici

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2612-7687

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2612-7679

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